Orange Wholesale’s CEO Michaël Trabbia has signed a Letter of Commitment on CSR. With concrete guidelines on all components of Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility, this endeavor provides a clear roadmap about how, when and by how much all lines of business within Orange Wholesale team up to help Orange reach net-zero carbon by 2040.
As the world’s leading wholesale connectivity provider, Orange Wholesale makes it clear through its letter of commitment on CSR how it will be leveraging the assets of all lines of business to foster positive change in our industry through innovation.
Scaling on all four scopes for greenhouse gas reduction
Regarding greenhouse gas emissions, we’re already playing our part to help Orange reach net zero ten years before the industry by acting on our solutions and network. Our carbon calculator is available since 2021 for all our fixed-line solutions customers. In 2024, we extended it to all our connectivity, housing and backbone portfolio and introduced our activity-induced carbon emission model. In 2025, we will be eco-designing all our products.
Regarding our global network infrastructure, the letter already explains how our footprint makes existing initiatives scaling massively:
- On scope 1, when we make our PoPs, CDN and cables more energy-efficient by 12%, 25% and 4,000% respectively, we’re talking about 800 PoPs, 200 CDN PoPs and 450,000km of cables. With green electricity to power our berthed cable ships, we’re considering 15% of the world’s fleet.
- On scope 2, we rely on the Group’s massive investments like Corporate Power Purchase Agreements to source 75% of our needs from renewables.
- On scope 3, we’re collecting millions of internet set-top boxes for recycling and investing 15% of our IT & Networks capex in refurbished in 2024 – figure is set to reach 25% in 2025.
- On scope 4, we rely on mutualization to achieve such targets as saving 21,000 tons of CO₂ emissions, increasing the tenancy ratio of our mobile towers to 1.5 by 2026.
Tackling all Corporate Social Responsibility challenges
In addition to the environmental sustainability of our operations, the letter of commitment covers all aspects of CSR, with specific provisions and action plans related to:
- Ensuring the resilience of our networks to face geo-political and economic risks, alongside climate change,
- Anticipating climate change to prepare the future of Orange Wholesale, with regards to service continuity and supply chain management,
- Keeping our exemplarity regarding ethics and compliance as a trusted partner, with a focus on due diligence, antitrust, data security and privacy,
- Promoting diversity and equality in the workplace, as well as health, safety and security.
